Youth-Research-Center/PandaPlot

Add "Open Example Project" to Help menu

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#181 opened on Aug 18, 2026

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Description

Example projects (currently surfaced via examples_dialog.py and welcome_tab.py) can currently only be opened from the Welcome tab. Once that tab is closed or a project is already open, there's no way back to them.

The Help menu (main_menu.py) currently only has an "About" action. Add an "Open Example Project..." action there that opens the existing examples dialog, so example projects remain discoverable at any time.

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Research direction
Inspect the existing examples dialog implementation in examples dialog.py and how the Welcome tab opens it. Then look at the Help menu in main menu.py to understand its structure and add a new action that invokes the same dialog.
Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop
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Feature
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1
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Under 1 hour
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Active
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Clear
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PythonGit
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85